Plowing alot and It is starting to look like a boat!

Here on Button Bay ice fishing season is well under way. I have been out the ice is about a foot thick and have not caught a thing. My father in law caught a can! Really.

I have put in the wiring, oil line, and tach cable in my previous post and this time around I have started to put the boat back together and it looks pretty nice. I put the dash back in and the cover for the steering shaft.


After I got the dash in I thought I would tackle the front bench back, which proved to be a challenge. I put the back in place and I wanted to cross drill the screws from the back of the stringer that the seat back rested against. From the factory they screwed from the front of the seat back to the board I mentioned then put another stringer board in front of the seat back. Thi meant if you ever wanted to remove the front bench seat you would have to take up the floor remove the front stringer and then remove the seat back. If I drilled the screws from the back I would only have to remove the floor behind the seat back and remove the screws to remove the seat back. Even though the section of floor behind the seat is big it is easier to work out in the open than under the bench seat.



I ran into trouble while putting in the supports on one side and had not 1 but 3 screw bulges. I really tried to line the support up with th eexisting holes but my bit had to be off. I essentially redrilled the hole at a slightly different angle, but now I have ot fix the bulges! Rats


I had to put a ratchet strap around the boat to bring the sides in to have them meet up better for the side supports. My boat was not perfect and the side supports always showed but I thought I would try to pull it in and it came in a little. I had an alteration to my boat by a previous owner in that they drilled a hole through the hull and put a long screw through the hull and the side bench support then used a bracket to attach this all to the seat back, interesting and pretty solid!


All in all pretty productive and I have moved onto figuring out stainless screws for my brightwork. I think things will start to pick up and I am getting excited to see the boat take shape. More to come from the frozen north.